Win, Place, or Show? How Foreign Investment Strategies Contribute to the Technological Growth of the Multinational Corporation

Blomkvist, Katarina; Kappen, Philip; Zander, Ivo

doi:10.1016/j.lrp.2013.10.001

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“…There is considerable organisational inertia, especially in the area of R&D, and key individuals may show a reluctance to engage in R&D cooperation with former rivals (Criscuolo and Narula, 2007). Blomkvist et al (2014) find that there are still tangible differences between acquired and greenfield subsidiaries even after 100 years. As Mudambi et al (2014) note, a common culture is important in transferring tacit knowledge.…”

Section: The Capacity To Recombine Assetsmentioning

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Emerging market MNEs as meta-integrators: the importance of internal networks

Narula

2017

IJTM

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The modern MNE has to be a 'meta-integrator', able to leverage knowledge within and between its different constituent affiliates, which requires efficient internal markets and well-structured cross-border hierarchies. The current generation of EMNEs need to strengthen their ownership advantages to achieve such internal embeddedness, which are hard to acquire, and must be learnt. I frame this discussion in the ongoing debate about the nature of ownership advantages. The ability to be competitive in an era of globalisation depends as much on the EMNE's technological assets as it does on its ability to achieve economies of common governance. The EMNE has to be able to promote internal knowledge flows, both to and from the parent, as well as between affiliates located in different countries. This is essential to achieve organisational, scale and scope economies.

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Section: The Capacity To Recombine Assetsmentioning

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Emerging market MNEs as meta-integrators: the importance of internal networks

Narula

2017

IJTM

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“…The last differentiation gave way to a more intensive focus on the role of subsidiaries: an important part of the literature draws our attention to the fact that the increasing internationalization of innovatory activities was accompanied by remarkable changes in the organization of MNEs (Zander, 2002;Blomkvist, K., Kappen, P., Zander, I. 2014a;Narula, 2014).…”

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Patterns of local R&D cooperation of foreign subsidiaries in an intermediate country: innovative and structural factors

Sánchez

Zayas

Rama

2017

IJTTC

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We attempt to contribute to a better understanding of cooperative innovation patterns of foreign subsidiaries (FS) in Spain as a representative intermediate country, going deeply into three main aspects: firstly, a sectoral taxonomy which combines international technological dynamism and revealed technological advantage as a way to understand such patterns. Secondly we focus our attention on innovative intensive subsidiaries, assuming they are the most important ones for hosting countries. Thirdly, we combine innovation and structural-competitive variables to explain local cooperation. We found more intense cooperation of FS with local agents in dynamic specialization sectors, as well as the fact that this is mostly carried out in a complementary mode with inner knowledge capabilities of the companies. Cooperative activities are influenced by economicstructural factors of the Spanish economy, particularly in highly innovative companies. Cooperative strategies of domestic firms might also have an influence on those of foreign subsidiaries. Index

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“…It has been further argued that greenfield subsidiaries are more likely to be insiders in the corporate system as compared to acquisitions that typically have larger numbers of executives and managers socialized in the network of the prior corporate parent. Recent research has shown that the differences between greenfield and acquired subsidiaries are extremely long-lasting and persist even when examining the records of MNEs over periods as long as a century (Blomkvist et al, 2014).…”

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Reverse Knowledge Transfer in MNEs: Subsidiary Innovativeness and Entry Modes

Mudambi

Piscitello

Rabbiosi³

2014

Long Range Planning

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It is now well recognized that multinational enterprises (MNEs) are differentiated networks wherein subsidiaries vary in terms of their ability to create new knowledge and competencies for their parent groups. In much of this theory, it is taken for granted that subsidiary innovativeness has a positive correlation with the extent of reverse knowledge transfers to the parent MNE. Relying on the headquarterssubsidiary view of the MNE, we argue that, beyond a point, increasing subsidiary innovativeness will be associated with lower reverse knowledge transfers. Further, we argue that this relationship is sensitive to the subsidiary entry mode. Using data from a sample of 293 Italian subsidiaries, we find strong support for our hypotheses. In particular, our results confirm that the effect of subsidiary innovativeness on reverse knowledge transfers displays an inverted-U shape, and that the curvilinearity is greater for greenfield entries relative to acquisition entries. The U-shaped relationship between subsidiary innovativeness and reverse knowledge transfers, as well as the sensitivity of this result to entry mode are important new findings in the literature on the role of subsidiaries in competence creation.

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Win, Place, or Show? How Foreign Investment Strategies Contribute to the Technological Growth of the Multinational Corporation

Abstract: PostprintThis is the accepted version of a paper published in Long range planning. This paper has been peerreviewed but does not include the final publisher proof-corrections or journal pagination.

Cited by 22 publications

References 98 publications

Emerging market MNEs as meta-integrators: the importance of internal networks

Emerging market MNEs as meta-integrators: the importance of internal networks

Patterns of local R&D cooperation of foreign subsidiaries in an intermediate country: innovative and structural factors

Reverse Knowledge Transfer in MNEs: Subsidiary Innovativeness and Entry Modes

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